RE: A basic replication question

Weaver, Walt scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon:

> Okay, we have a request for quite a few of our customers for read-only
> copies of their databases they can do their ad-hoc queries on. These
> read-only databases need to as closely matched to the production
> database as possible, i.e., exact, from their point of view.

can they use a read only login for it? just set up a username with no quota and grant it select on the tables it needs. or am i missing something here?

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